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• The fact that he was penniless by the turn of the sixties is virtually a postscript on the final page of the text.

• But they also benefited because the penniless and hung-over shepherds returned for another year of interminably monotonous shepherding.

• These last included corporal punishment, for fines were of no effect on penniless spinners and weavers.

• Criss notes that foreign-relief agencies supplemented the badly organized and penniless municipal organizations.

• Many had arrived penniless and had rapidly thrown themselves into work to support themselves and their families.

• He is released after a two-year prison sentence, a widowed, penniless old man.

• Jaquinet's own self-deception in becoming enamored with an ambitious but penniless young man.

• Eyre is a quick-thinking confidence man who, while still a penniless apprentice, manages to trick the master of a foreign ship into selling him his whole cargo on credit.

• He rented out slum flats to the penniless and jobless, and made thousands of pounds by fraud.

• Men are discharged penniless, and it is weeks and weeks before they get their back pay.

• Therefore, these poor women are not entirely penniless.

• The ancient pass laws were of no use in dealing with the increased numbers of homeless and penniless urban poor.

• Although the majority have families to go to, there is evidence that some arrive penniless and dispossessed.

• It is quite possible for an owner of a business, and for his widow and family, today to be left absolutely penniless.

• I have heard of men who have gone to law and emerged penniless, stripped by the law and the lawyers.